Week 12 - "Focusing On Angles" photo challenge

Here's my entry for this week's photo challenge on iheartfaces.

Week 8 - "Hands-On Fun" Photo Challenge @ I Heart Faces

As soon as I saw the assignment for this week at I Heart Faces I knew exactly what I wanted to submit... this was a picture I took a couple years ago, when I was still fairly new to using my dSLR. I thought it was fun to show how much I'm addicted to my computer. I had fun with the post processing on this pic and have played with it a few times. This is the one I finally decided to submit for this week.

catching up...

Ok, I've had a few requests to see the SOOC pic for my i heart faces entry and since I can only have one photo on the actual entry I will add it here and then I'll post the CT layouts from this weekend.

SOOC of my cutie patootie nephew

and the edited w/ texture so you can see the difference

Isn't he adorable, I just love that sweet boy! OK, some fun kits were released this weekend by Traci and Eva. Traci actually released two things this weekend, an adorably fun kit and a set of really awesome templates. I used both for this layout of my vaseline beauty. The kit name is Be You and the templates are Bottom Ups 5.
and I used another one of Traci's new templates to make this page with Kristin Cronin-Barrow's Joy to the World kit.
and I used another one of Traci's new templates to make this fun page using Blue Skies and Flutterbies by Traci.
I love templates because I can easily make a page really fast w/o having to think too much about design.

Eva has a really fun kit that totally brought me back to the 80's with it's colors. It's called Dancing Tween and needless to say I had ABBA running through my head all day Friday and Saturday, and of course now that I mention it it's in my head again, lol. I thought it was perfect for my dancing little girl.

Week 4 - "Textures" Photo Challenge

This week's subject is one of my faves.... I LOVE playing with textures in my pictures. I love this picture too and added a haze texture and some bokeh overlays and sun flare. I loved this picture before I played with it but had so much fun adding the textures to it. So here is my entry in this week's I heart faces photo challenge.

I'm still in shock...

Last night i heart faces posted the winners of the photo contest from this week. I love my entry but I really didn't think it would be acknowledged by any of the judges as a top picture. I mean, the entries are AMAZING, like REALLY REALLY AMAZING! Because there were so many entries they changed it up a bit this week. Originally, the judges, there were 18 of them, were supposed to just post their one pick from the week. Well, instead they decided each of them can post their top 5 photos instead. Anyways, 2 of the judges picked my photo as one of their top 5 entries. I really can't believe it, like really really can't believe it. Anyways, I want to thank i heart faces for having such a great birthday bash and thank the judges for acknowledging my entry. It was so much fun and I look forward to entering more photos.

Here's the pic I entered.

Also, I got my Real World Color template and color swatch yesterday for the Design Your Life class. It was a fun urban color inspiration and I actually really like the page I made. The colors were gray, white, lime green and red. I used papers from a few different kits. The gray paper came from Outta This World by Traci Reed and Dani Modgstad (a retired kit), the white paper came from His Playroom by Traci Reed, the green and red papers came from Retro Revival a The Digi Dares collab, and the "hair" alpha was paintity doo dah by Traci Reed. The fonts were traveling typewriter and my personal handwriting done by Darcy Baldwin (btw, Darcy has her custom fonts on sale this week).

Here's my page and the journaling reads:
I have a love/hate relationship with my hair. I like it long but it’s so heavy & gives me a headache. I like it really short too because I hate sweaty hair on my neck during the summer. I think my favorite is the chin length inverted bob. I get that cut all the time though and I’m tired of the same ole’ thing. I want a change but nothing really makes me happy. I tried the perm in the 80’s, that was a joke, *snort*. I’ve tried the asymmetrical bob and well, that just doesn’t look right on me. I guess I’ll end up getting the inverted bob again... For the record, I had this cut long before Kate Gosselin, we’re talking high school senior photo. That would be since the early 90’s. Yikes!

Best face photo and my first i heart faces contest entry!

Well, I was wondering what I was going to blog about today since I took a break last night from digiscrapping... well sort of, you'll find out hopefully by the end of the week what I was doing. Anyways, as I'm going through google reader I'm looking at all the wonderful P365 pictures and just amazed at how talented my friends are. I finally come to i heart faces' blog and every Monday they post the new contest for the week and I always look forward to seeing the winners later in the week because they're just so inspiring. I'm not sure why I've never entered a pic but decided why not... I mean, I love doing the Fix It Friday, so why not enter some of my pics and hopefully improve photographing my kiddos, which is the reason I got my camera in the first place. So, this week's contest is your "best face photo" and this is the picture I'm entering. I just LOVE this picture of both my kids!

This picture was taken 12/22/09